Day #2 Seeking Redemption
Torah To Grow
One of the themes of Megillat Ruth, which is read on Shavuot, is chesed, kindness.
Our rabbis tell us that this is the reason why Megillah Ruth is included in Tanach:
Making Time for Chesed: A Study Guide
Prepared by Rabbi Joshua Flug
One of the themes of Megillat Ruth, which is read on Shavuot, is chesed, kindness. Our rabbis tell us that this is the reason why Megillah Ruth is included in Tanach:
Redeem Yourself
Dr. Erica Brown
We have a redemption problem in this country right now. Whenever we find ourselves in darkness, usually of the political sort, we rush to identify a savior: a faultless leader who can save us from ourselves. In our binary good versus evil world, we wait for someone with fairy dust to sprinkle on our deep and pervasive problems and then suffer when the truth comes out. The promise is tarnished. The leader is flawed. He or she turns out not to be our redeemer. We are heartbroken. We take out Leonard Cohen’s Manual for Living with Defeat and hum a few bars. The pattern is entrenched. We will wait again.
The Torah’s Mystery Man
Rabbi Norman Lamm zt"l
The Book of Ruth read on Shavuot is a beautiful and inspiring story, instructive to us in many ways. The story itself is fairly simple, and most of us are, or should be, well acquainted with it. The cast of characters is well-known: Boaz, Ruth and Naomi as the major characters, and Orpah, Elimelekh, Mahlon and Kilyon as the minor characters.